Shai Agassi is Leaving SAP — Bookmark — WSJ reports: — Shai Agassi, president of SAP's product and technology group and architect of SAP's Netweaver software, is leaving the company to pursue interests in alternative energy and climate change, says a person familiar with the move.

WIRED: Transparently compliant — Wired Magazine is congratulating itself on its own exercise in radical transparency. The San Francisco magazine, which this month spotlights Microsoft's effort to be more open, has posted up the briefing document prepared by Redmond's public relations firm while the article was being reported.

Introducing the Yahoo! Mail Web Service — At Yahoo!, we pride ourselves on helping people around the world (over 500 million of them!) connect and communicate with each other using the vast array of communications platforms we offer. Of those platforms, the most popular is Yahoo! Mail …

EyeTrack07: The Myth of Short Attention Spans — Poynter unveiled the initial findings of its most recent study of reader behavior at the ASNE convention in Washington, D.C., this morning. Watch, listen and read about them here first. — Media Business Analyst — Contributors: Pegie Stark Adam, Sara Quinn

How basic is Twitter? — Like so many others in the tech blogging world, I've spent the last few weeks exploring Twitter. I understand that there were lots of people using it before me, and before that, the developers of Twitter envisioned something that all the rest of us didn't.

Microsoft Unveils Xbox 360 Elite — Premium black console includes 120GB hard drive and line of new accessories. — Microsoft Corp. today announced the upcoming availability of Xbox 360™ Elite, a new model of the video game and entertainment system that will include a 120GB hard drive …

Joost successfully run on Apple TV — tutorialninjas.net has reported success in running Joost on the Apple TV. There are currently some problems with fonts but I am sure this will be fixed in a near future... right? What does this mean? Once Joost goes live you will get free …

DoubleClick Explores a Sale — Potential Suitors — Include Microsoft; — Listing Is an Option — Online advertising firm DoubleClick Inc. is exploring a sale, and is already in active talks with Microsoft Corp., among other potential suitors, according to people familiar with the matter.

ETech07 liveblog: Incantations for Muggles — Incantations for Muggles: The Role of Ubiquitous Web 2.0 Technologies in Everyday Life — danah boyd, Doctoral Candidate, School of Information, University of California-Berkeley — Thank you so much for getting up at this hour.

Iminlikewithyou: Love in the time of Facebook — This past weekend I got a chance to hang out with Charles Forman and Dan Albritton, the twenty-something, fast-talking co-founders of New York-based Iminlikewithyou, a new web-mobile hybrid service, that is going as addictive and as powerful as Facebook.

One Picture, 1,000 Tags — WHAT do you see when you see a work of art? — Strolling through a museum, a painting of a shipwreck catches your eye. You are struck by the dominance of blue in another work. Yet another painting, featuring a silvery moon, seems sad.

Patent Overhaul now on D.C. Agenda — When Democrats took control of Congress last election, the lobbyists for all the big technology and telecom companies in Washington pulled out their wish lists, ripped them up, and re-arranged their legislative priorities.